If You Liked Dead Man Walking, Watch These Next
Finished Dead Man Walking (1995) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Dead Man Walking, most of them are drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Last Temptation of Christ(1988)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him…
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2.Killer: A Journal of Murder(1996)
5.9DramaAlso drama
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of…
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3.The Magdalene Sisters(2002)
7.5DramaHistoryAlso drama
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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4.Clemency(2019)
6.3DramaAlso drama
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
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5.Return to Sender(2015)
6.1DramaThrillerAlso drama
A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact revenge on her assailant after he's paroled from prison.
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6.He Got Game(1998)
6.8DramaAlso drama
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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7.Powder Blue(2009)
6.1DramaAlso drama
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.
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8.The Life of David Gale(2003)
7.4DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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10.All Day and a Night(2020)
6.2DramaAlso drama
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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11.Breakwater(2023)
5.9ThrillerDramaAlso drama
A young ex-con risks his newfound freedom to track down the estranged daughter of a fellow inmate, and unknowingly brings a devil from her past straight to her doorstep.
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12.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)
8.4DramaAlso drama
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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13.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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15.Lock Up(1989)
6.8ActionCrimeDramaAlso drama
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees…
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16.Mean Streets(1973)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
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18.Out of the Blue(1981)
7.0DramaAlso drama
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
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